Testimony

It was so difficult trying to sleep through until my 6 a.m. cellphone alarm; yet when it chimed, and I was halfway to a little further sleep, I was in no mind to be getting up.

But I wanted to try and be set to do some shopping at Shoppers Drug Mark about a half mile from here after its 8 a.m. opening.

This readying would involve a two heaping teaspoons mug of hot instant coffee with the works.

Fortunately it was heavily overcast, for I never left until several minutes past 8 a.m. And my shopping bill was to come to $102.58 ─ a good part of that were three packages of assorted Hallowe'en goodies that I will be turning over to Bev, since she is the one who will be sitting alone in the living room watching T.V. that evening awaiting my younger brother's homecoming from his daily outing to social drink.

I got back home from the drug store to find him already watching T.V., but I came upstairs to my bedroom and sat here at my bedside computer until a little past 9 a.m. before joining him. I had left a bottle of vitamin C (500 mgs) at my wife's closed bedroom door ─ she had requested last night that I buy her some. This particular bottle has vitamin D3 (500 I.U.s) as well.

Once my brother turned the T.V. over to me so that I could put our Android TV Box to work, we were to watch the beginning of a couple of videos that he was to vote against, so my third choice kept us watching. It was nearly 1¼ hours (1:11:42) and had been streamed yesterday to Rumble's Kim Iversen channel: Zelensky BLINDSIDED By Trump In White House Meeting | UK Bans RACIST JEWS From Attending Soccer Match.

Trump’s secret call with Putin sends shockwaves through Kyiv. Azealia Banks goes to Israel and suddenly changes her tune — now calling it racist. And British authorities ban Israeli soccer fans after a string of violent incidents, but the press is spinning it as anti-Semitism.

After that I tuned in the old black & white movie we had already twice put in sittings with, but had suspended so my brother could get more bed rest. This time there was lots of time, for it was not yet 10:30 a.m.

The movie was 1959's The Bat. My source was published June 21, 2022, to Rumble's Retro Classic TV, Cartoon & Movies channel: The Bat (1959).

We found it entertaining enough, but it ended with no clear explanations. For instance, although Wikipedia's detailed outline of the movie concludes by identifying who the Bat was ─ a plain-clothed police lieutenant ─ it only explains that his "motives were financial, as he was one of the first people notified of the theft of the bank securities later converted into cash."

Okay, that explained why he was haunting the big old house Agnes Moorehead's character had rented; but he had been murdering people long before this. The bank's theft only occurred early into the start of the movie. Why was he terrorizing the town long, long before that?

Was he just nuts ─ a homicidal maniac who was perfectly normal as a plain-clothed cop? Did he have a diabolical split personality and was largely not in control and maybe didn't even remember what he kept doing?

No explanation.   

I vaguely remember as a boy my mother taking my brother and I to possibly see this movie at a drive-in theatre ─ there would have been at least one other feature with it, of course. What I remember were previews in which a male voice would dramatically declare, "The Bat! A dangerous killer!"

I think that I was terrified when the movie began and I saw the clawed hand reaching through a curtain; possibly I never even watched anything more. But how could that be? The movie I finished watching this morning was interesting enough, but not at all scary or even particularly suspenseful.

Could there have been some other movie called "The Bat"?

Anyway, we finished up the morning by watching a 47-minute (47:38) video published July 24, 2019, to BitChute's Adaneth channel: The Battle Against Rome | A Province Too Far (Episode 1).

A 2009 History Channel Documentary hosted by Andrew Solomon.

Arminius – born as the son of a Cheruscan, abducted as a pawn of the Romans, and raised as a soldier, he returns to subdued Germania under Emperor Augustus. He makes himself the leader of the revolt against Rome, resulting in the destruction of the legions of Varus' in the year 9 AD. On the side of Arminius', the audience will experience the "clash of cultures" between the Romans and Germania. In a memorable television event, we accompany him from the simple mud hut of his father to ancient Rome, from the plains of Pannonia to battlefields in the gorges of the Teutoburg Forest.

Episode 1: The first part deals with the search for Arminius identity. Coming from a simple village of the Cherusci settlement and the dense forests of Germania, the Romans kidnap him under a treaty made in their civilization. They educate him and train him into a soldier. He proved himself in the suppression of a revolt against the Romans in Pannonia, and finally returns to the side of the Roman governor Varus, thereby returning to his homeland.

Episode 2: https://www.bitchute.com/video/QEcyzTPAXkYF/

We have yet to watch the concluding episode.

Incidentally, into the morning it began to lightly rain, and rain seems to have prevailed the day. 

My brother returned to his bedroom for further bed rest after that last documentary, and I was reasonably quick to seek my nap because I correctly expected that he would be making the drive to restock on beer.

After I was up, though, I was not much feeling like going anywhere, but for once he took the initiative of offering to take me along. I don't believe that I would otherwise have bothered going.

I should have stayed home.

Government liquor stores are still closed due to a strike, so he drove us to a private liquor store about a mile from here.

Well, I was off my guard. The place was rather crowded, and I had actually found a 24-can box of the Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol) I was after. There were no others that I could see.

At the counter with the single busy male South Asian cashier, he could get recognition when he scanned the box's bar code, so a South Asian colleague suggested improvising and ring up two cases ─ or some equivalent. Or maybe 24 individual cans ─ I'm not sure. Both men were speaking accented English.

I think the tally came to $84.71, and without thinking I paid with a $100 bill and then donated all but the $10 bill into the tip jar.

It was only while on the way home and I was feeling uptight about how much beer is costing now that my brother asked what I was charged. Only when he incredulously expressed that his 24-can pack of another beer was half the price did it smack me hard ─ I had been charged for two 24-can packs.

And I tipped, ending up with just $10 of the $100 bill I had paid for two dozen cans of freaking beer.

There has been a knotted sensation in my stomach ever since, and I have a scowl on my face as I type this.

I can't afford this!

My wife ─ who had a full workday today, and left on her wet and rather long drive shortly past 10 a.m. ─ texted me as follows soon after:

Hi yon transfer $100 for me please. Thank you.

Somewhat later I enquired:

What's up?

I can't afford to be handing over money without knowing she is in true need.

Later in the afternoon at 3:24 p.m. just before I had some light exercising in her vacant bedroom, I again texted:

No emergency?

But no response to either enquiry resulted.

Rogers Wireless is my carrier, and they have me on their 2G network because I refuse to buy a new phone from them and of course likely needing to do so on a contract basis. I actually intend to soon ditch them and move over to another carrier.

Since I am on 2G, I think that it is quite possible that there is a big delay in when messages are transmitted ─ heck, maybe they can even get dropped, I just don't know. So it could be that she has not even seen them.

As for hers, it claimed to have arrived at 10:05 a.m., but I am sure that I received it well beyond then because my wife had been gone for quite a few minutes. Thus, I am wondering if it is possible that she sent me the text last evening before she had come home?

I bloody don't know.

Why have I had to fret over finances all of my adult life?! I can't keep taking this.

I am going to break from this post to watch a show here on my bedside computer and have a beer, for it is 6:55 p.m. But I want to mention that before having eaten today ─ I only had two coffees with the works ─ I stripped down and weighed myself after that light exercising that I mentioned, and I was 175 pounds.

I shall return later this evening ─ I expect that I will have watched a couple of shows and had as many beers by then.

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I wasn't keen on doing so, but I selected The Handmaid's Tale ─ episode five ("Unknown Caller") of season three. Fortunately, I usually find myself getting more out of these episodes than I expect I will.

On this occasion, my source was this GOOJARA.to link.

The episode ended around 8 p.m., and I could see below to the living room that my brother was back home and watching T.V. with Bev.

I next watched The Guardian ─ the first episode ("Testimony") of the second season.

It was very good! And I sure never expected to be seeing Farrah Fawcett ─ she barely looked as I remembered her. I wondered if maybe it was a less glamorous daughter? But if my math was right, the original Farrah Fawcett would have probably been 55 years old when the episode was filmed, so it was little wonder that she had lost much of her lustre.

Seven years later she was to die ─ I can't even imagine having anal cancer, poor soul. 

She looked younger in The Guardian episode, though, despite playing a grandmother of an 11-year-old girl.

Holy crap! I just discovered that the actress portraying the granddaughter was AJ Michalka ─ she played Erica Goldberg's best friend "Lainey Lewis", and sweetheart of Barry Goldberg, on the T.V. series The Goldbergs.

Amazing!

My source for the show was another GOOJARA.to link.

Soon after my show ended, my wife got home (maybe 9:20 p.m.). I conferred with her about her text, and she really did send it soon after she had left for work. She had seen my two follow-up responses, but was always too busy to respond.

She's feeling iller than last evening, so she was primarily interested in getting to bed. She has another full workday tomorrow at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time. 

I also feel like I've had enough for the evening. I have some things to do here at my computer before I get into bed, so I am going to quit and publish this post, and then tackle brushing my teeth.

I'll be doing some grocery shopping in the morning when the store opens at 8 a.m., so I will probably set my alarm for 6 a.m. to get me up early enough to adjust to that outing.

Right now it is 10:06 p.m., and the hope is to be abed before 11 p.m.